Mamie Van Doren Claims Marilyn Monroe & JFK Affair Was Just a One-Night Stand

Was the rumored torrid love affair between the silver screen’s biggest star and a sitting President of the United States really a single moment of passion? As one of the “Three Ms,” Mamie Van Doren stood shoulder to shoulder and bust to bust with on-screen sex symbols, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. And in a new interview, the 94-year-old Van Doren dished on the Some Like It Hot star, saying she and Monroe were “good friends” — and that Monroe’s infamous relationship with John F. Kennedy may have been much shorter than previously believed.

“We liked each other,” Van Doren told IndieWire. “I got to know Marilyn. I was 12 years old when I first met her, she was at the Blue Book Modeling Agency at the Ambassador Hotel, and I lived out back at the Ambassador Hotel. And when I was a kid, I would go into the swimming pool all the time, and I used to see her modeling all the time.”